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So, we’ve covered a lot of ground when it comes to researching and generating keywords for your SEO efforts, and by using those techniques you should be well on your way to creating a lot more in the way of highly targeted money making keywords.

The downside is time – all these tools are fantastic and free but in order to generate a good list, you would have to use most of those tools separately. A manual task that isn’t the most exciting let me tell you.

How would you like the same sort of data and more – in a much quicker and easier way? Well you’ll be pleased to know there are tools out there that do this for you and this saves a huge amount of time!

Brad Callen and his team have upgraded their really popular and successful Keyword Elite tool and it’s a fantastic piece of kit. I had the original version and was really pleased with it, but Keyword Elite 2.0 blows it out the water.

Please check out the video below to see just how powerful this tool is – even though I’m only scratching the surface!

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Hey there,

Guess what. I have another free keyword research method for you. Aren’t I good to you?

This time we’re back to Google, and yes, they have provided more tools for us to use to help us find more keywords. Not only that, but it allows us to delve deep into niches and sub niches we may never have thought of within our industry.

This is fine to use with top generic keywords if you wish, to allow you to find out other popular terms and sub niches. Not only can you use this tool for keyword research, but you can use this to help you think of more content to produce based around you niche. How’s that for multi function?

OK, as usual I have made a video demonstrating it in action, so go ahead, check out the video and have a play around with the Google Wonder Wheel!

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Hope you’re enjoying the keyword research posts so far. As you can see there are plenty of ways of generating keywords, and working out how popular they are.

I also showed you a way of finding out the commercial intent of a searcher with certain keywords. Want to find out what keywords your competitors are bidding on? Bearing in mind people are actively spending on these keywords every time someone clicks on them they have to turn a profit for them to continue bidding on those words! Either that, or they have bottomless pockets

Well with the help of a free plugin – you can find out what keywords your competitors (or anyone) are bidding on. Please note, this only works with Firefox (an alternative to Internet Explorer) You can download Firefox here.

Please check out the video below to find out how to use PPC Webspy:

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By now, if you’ve been playing around with the selection of free keyword research tools I have demonstrated, you should have some kinda list of keywords that you feel would be great to aim for. If you haven’t – I suggest you check out the Keyword Research Category.

But what now?

Well having a list of keywords is great – knowing how popular they are, even in different countries is also great. But how do you know if you’re going to profit from them? Lets face it – that’s why we’re doing this stuff right?

It’s all very nice showing of your nice rankings, but that means nothing if it’s not bringing in the moolah. I’ve ranked highly for some real strong keywords before, but the conversion was not worth writing home about. Yes, there could have been other factors such as the written copy etc, but even with lots of traffic to counteract that – it still was a flop.

Is there a way of finding out how likely people are going to spend money using particular keywords? Well actually there’s at least two ways and today I will be covering one of them. The best part? It’s still free

MSN also provide various tools but one in particular stands out, and is worth including in your keyword research process. Trust me, it’s worth taking that extra time on this.

So go ahead, check out the video below to get an understanding of how the tool works, and also to be clearer in how to think about the keywords you want. Top level generic isn’t always best

MSN Commercial Intent Tool can be found here.

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Well we’re on a bit of a roll now! By now, you should have started to use two quick, easy and free tools provided by Google to help you generate some keywords.

What’s that? You want more? Ok – you’ve twisted my arm

Now one thing you need to do is guage the popularity of your keywords to see if infact they are the most popular terms you could choose. Remember, there are multiple ways of searching for the same thing, so it’s worth comparing very similar search results to determine which is most search for.

For instance, if you were to compare between “Online Casino” and Casino Online” you would find out which is most searched for – even though they are very very similar.

Of course, the more popular a term, usually the more competitive, but it pays to see if the word you thought of is even really used before you waste your time optimising around that phrase.

Try not to compare a really generic one word term with less generic ones, otherwise your results will be swamped out by the generic term and it will make it hard to judge the popularity of your other keywords.

Ok, so without further ado – please check out the video below to see this tool in action, and to give you an idea as to how powerful it is:

The Google Insights Tool can be found here.

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Following on from the previous post about keyword research (Keyword Research – Google Adwords Tool) I thought I’d make another quick video to demonstrate another quick and easy way to generate more keywords, or refine the ones you already have.

This is another free offering from Google on the keyword tool front and is worth your while checking out. Please note – this used to be available on Google.com and Google.co.uk but recently the result count has been removed on Google.com. Other than that, it still works the same as the UK version.

Please check out the short video below to find out more:

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OK, today we’re gonna delve into keyword research today but one technique at a time as there are a million and one ways in order to conduct keyword research – most free – some paid.

Looking back, it was probably more of an idea to start with keyword research before writing about on page optimisation, as this is very useful information when it comes to your content writing!

Oh well, at least you know how to write your content more effectively when it comes to your Page Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords.

I think the best way to discuss one of the free keyword research methods is by a video rather than via text and screen shots. Now, this isn’t going to be a full tutorial on how to use the tool – Google has guides which will be worth checking out. This is going to introduce you to the tool, and what it can achieve and how it can give you a great head start with getting together some keywords.

So, please check out the video below and get cracking with generating some keywords!

The Google Keyword tool can be found here.

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